Pearl Jam’s Ten Reaches Ten Million Copies Sold

Pearl Jam’s debut album Ten is old enough to drink, and today there is reason to celebrate. Billboard reports that the album has officially hit the ten million albums sold mark for the US. The album was originally released in 1991 through Epic Records and is now the 22nd album to hit the mark since 1991, when Nielsen began tracking data.

Just this past week it sold almost 4,000 copies (up 159%) to bring it’s total to about 1,000 over 10 million.

It’s the fourth album to hit ten million since the start of 2012 after Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory, Usher’s Confessions and Adele’s 21. It’s the fifteenth best-selling album of the SoundScan era with 10.4 million sold. It is about 186,000 copies behind Britney Spears’ Baby One More Time, which is in 14th place.

It will be some time before another album hits ten million sold. The next closest, Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love, is 400,000 copies away as it has sold about 9.6 million. It is selling below 1,000 copies a week.

The highest selling album since 1991 is Metallica’s self-titled release, which has sold 15.86 million. Shania Twain’s Come On Over is in second with 15.53 million and in third is Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill with 14.82 million.